Doctors

Dr Andrew Leonard Perkins

MBBS (Royal Free) DRCOG DOMRC Ophth MRCGP

GMC registered 1977

Dr Perkins is a graduate of The Royal Free Hospital, London and after initial training as a GP has also worked for a number of years in Mali, West Africa as an ophthalmic surgeon. As well as a broad medical approach he maintains a special interest in ophthalmology.

Dr Dorothy Joy Thomas

MA (Oxford), MB, CHB (Edinburgh), MRCGP

Dr Thomas trained as a GP in Bassetlaw. She spent some years in the 1990s working in Pakistan doing general practice with a special interest in tuberculosis. Since 1999 she has been working as a GP in England. She is especially interested in women’s health

Dr Denis John Alexander Stewart

BSc (St. Andrews) MBChB (Dundee) DRCOG

GMC registered 1980

Dr Stewart is a graduate of St Andrews and Dundee Universities and after extensive training in Ayrshire has been a GP since 1985. He considers himself to be a traditional family doctor.

Nurses

Our nurses are both experienced in community and hospital nursing and run clinics at both surgeries. They are able to monitor and advise on long-term conditions such as asthma, COPD, with spirometry testing, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and hypertension with ECG checks, and carry out routine cardiovascular screening for those over 40. They are available for cervical smears, blood tests, travel, flu, and childhood vaccination and advice, dressings, and run an anti-coagulant clinic for patients taking warfarin.

Mrs Alison Pinkerton

Mrs Helen E. Hand (f)

Helen replaced Fiona Gray as practice nurse in September 2015. She works Fridays at Bawtry.

Healthcare Assistants

Healthcare assistants support practice nurses with their daily work and carry out tasks such as phlebotomy (drawing blood), blood pressure measurement and new patient checks. They may act as a chaperone when a patient or doctor requests one.

Practice Management

Mr Daniel Blakey

The practice manager is involved in managing all of the business aspects of the practice such as making sure that the right systems are in place to provide a high quality of patient care, human resources, finance, patient safety, premises and equipment and information technology. The practice manager supports the GPs and other medical professionals with delivering patient services and also helps to develop extended services to enhance patient care.

Reception

Mrs Moira Hall

Mrs Sharon Holt

Mrs Rachel Nettleship

Mrs Joanne Cruickshanks

Receptionists provide an important link for patients with the practice and are your initial contact point for general enquiries. They can provide basic information on services and results and direct you to the right person depending on your health issue or query. Receptionists make most of the patient appointments with the GPs and nurses. They also perform other important tasks such as issuing repeat prescriptions and dealing with prescription enquiries, dealing with financial claims, dealing with patient records and carrying out searches and practice audits.

Attached Staff

The practice has a complete compliment of attached clinical staff including district nurses, health visitors, MacMillan nurses, chiropodists, dieticians, community psychiatric nurses, community matrons, heart failure nurse, and COPD nurse.

We have our own in house midwife, physiotherapist and counsellor.

These services are available through the doctors, practice nurses, and reception.